The judgment seat was taken down in an instant with one swipe from the huge stone pillar. The seat was only about two yards high, and the red bishops seated there all intended to simply fly away. With assassins coming at them, they had no choice but to fall back instead.
The remaining four assassins melded themselves with creatures of unknown planes, which had all of them bloated several times their usual size. Chains penetrating their bodies were used as their weapons, which blocked off a vicinity of tens of yards.
Despite being only grade-4 or grade-5 professionals, their combat capacity was enhanced by several orders of magnitude due to said melding. The price to such power was, however, that they would not live to see the next sunrise.
